Comment Re:Probably due to methodical errors (Score -1, Flamebait) 156
What's next...Trans-Bots and DEI for underserved Bot minorities?!!? H1-Bot....?
Comment Re:Scant details in the article (Score 1) 89
Comment Re:State is probably best stated by the comics (Score -1, Troll) 103
Oh FFS.
This "private army intimidating people" is nothing of the sort. It is the administration doing EXACTLY what the 1996 law requires of it. The fact that everyone just ignored the law for 30 years does not make Trump the criminal now and it does not make what ICE is doing illegal. It makes what everyone did from 1997-2020 the CRIME.
If you don't like immigration law - then win enough elections to change it. What Bush did, what Obama did, what Biden did on the subject were actual crimes. My gwd DACA - holy crap an entire program made up entirely by executive whim based on wild interpretation of a few line in the code. Wow that honestly sounds a lot like what everyone accuses this admin of doing when it comes to things like tariffs. Funny how we only have laws when the LEFT does not like what President is doing, when the RIGHT does not like it miraculously the courts are unable to find any legal standing, and the legislature decides it has to play its constitutionally assigned role...
What is missing from the entire conversation right now is Trump is governing pretty much EXACTLY like Bush, Obama, AND Biden did. The attitudes about authority and rule making all the same. Even the rhetoric, anyone remember "bitter clingers", once again the real difference is nothing other than who it is directed toward.
The truth is their is no actual air between the leadership styles of Obama and Trump, the real reason he gets so much hate is because the opposition's heroes are opposite sides of the same coin.
Comment Re: State is probably best stated by the comics (Score 1) 103
Did you try watching "History of the World Part II"
I did, I went in really really wanting to like it. It had its moments like anything that long will but mostly it was dull. Mel should have left well enough alone.
Comment Re:State is probably best stated by the comics (Score 0) 103
They sat and laughed because it was fun. A lot of those old shows are still funny. That certain demographics did not or no longer find them funny should inhibit the rest of us.
Comment Re:The Ultimate Bike Shed (Score 1) 269
Again, is this a European thing? I've never heard of a shed dedicated to storing bikes....I can see this is brewing used as an analogy for something else, but the shed/bike concept itself is foreign to me.
Comment Re:What is left to change besides oven and microwa (Score 2) 269
Comment Re:Don't forget everyone.... (Score 1, Offtopic) 47
So much this..
Comment Re:Risk reward and perverse incentives (Score 2) 47
Yes except, we are not talking about keeping ourselves warm in the winter, cool in the summer, the lights on in the ER etc... We are talking about power for AI data centers; not even data centers for "traditional" computer applications and software.
I'd be the last person here to argue we don't to develop energy infrastructure. I would agree that could maybe even should include nuclear fission at least in the form of modern much safer designs with real consideration for who bears the cost for the 'common defense' when a commercial entity is permitted to paint a giant target on a community.
Never the less this is a societal cross roads, where it comes to AI. The choice isn't massive unrestricted AI build out or mud hutts. We options spanning a range of carrying on like it 2016...damn the torpedoes restart EOL reactors and generating plants to feed the things.
Nuclear power plants (particularly 3rd gen and older) represent an enormous socialization of risk. Their really isn't any getting around that. Historically a rising tide has also lifted *most* ships. Even if it is not immediately clear and their are short term employment impacts etc, AI driven productivity probably will make most American's better off and a small subset with a lot if direct financial interested in things like restarting aging nuclear reactors more fabulously wealthy than they already are. So the question is does this "Promote the General Welfare" in net or not in terms of should regulators really go along with it.
Comment Re:Depends (Score 1) 269
"Well...it seemed like a good idea at the time...."
Comment Re:The Ultimate Bike Shed (Score 1) 269
Never heard of one or seen one before...is this a European thing?
Comment Re:What is left to change besides oven and microwa (Score 2, Insightful) 269
What is left to change besides oven and microwave times?
One...the most IMPORTANT one....my internal clock....
That really takes close to a week to get fixed every time.....it throws all of us humans off to some degree.
Oh...and my dog....I have to adjust her schedule twice a year too....
Comment Re:Summary ... (Score 1) 269
JUST PICK ONE AND STICK WITH IT....
I want to quit the damned changing in my lifetime.
Comment Risk reward and perverse incentives (Score 3, Interesting) 47
The problem with Nuclear power is that it looks really good in the abstract sense but where it encounters reality it does not suit society so well.
Someone on here a few days ago pointed out that with something like 400 power stations and large industrial reactors there have only been three serious containment incidents.
I would say that isnt actually that good a track record given the cost of such calamity. Which really is unbound as far we know because it remains unclear what dealing with Chernobyl may still require as there is still fissile activity producing enough heat it could destabilze the surroundings, and all kinds of weird fungus that might be attacking the structure of the buildings, and Fukushima while it looks like we have handle on the ongoing clean up requirements, there can still be surprises. If scale the numbers of 2017-19 Chevbolt fires to 30 years you still have a rate of about 2 tenths of percent where spontaneous ignition would occur. GM still did a a recall and that only burns down your garage...
The other problem is the size and acute nature of catastrophe when it does happen. Yes you can prove with statistics coal plants release more radiation and kill more people one way or another. That's fine but they tend do it over decades at a rate society can absorb those costs. Even when a tail pond lets go or something we are usually looking at the loss of one town not a 1000+ sq miles. That is difference between one these 100 year floods and 500 year floods right there, in terms of social cost.
The picture for modern reactors does not change as much as Bill gates wants us to think because humans. Sure maybe it can't meltdown, maybe it can't produce hydrogen and create explosive conditions that will scatter materials on their own. But that does not mean some nut job shouting "Death to America" won't crash a jetliner into it, or execute some other kind of attack potentially spreading contaminates over 100s of miles. Remember you don't need a blast its the fire and the smoke that pump stuff high into the atmosphere where it can rain down later.